Episode 81: TwoSet Violin’s Brett Yang on the ‘Empress Caterina’ Stradivari

TwoSet Violin celebrated a significant milestone late in 2022: upon reaching 4 million subscribers on YouTube, the violin comedy duo put on a performance of a lifetime with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, with Brett Yang playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and Eddy Chen joining him later for the Bach Violin Concerto for two violins. Not only this, but for the occasion, Tarisio loaned the pair two Stradivari violins from 1708 – the ‘Empress Caterina’ and ‘Regent Superb’. What an opportunity!

Brett Yang chats to online editor Davina Shum about his experience playing this instrument, what it taught him about his playing, as well as other instruments he’s played throughout his career.

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III Allegro molto vivace

Violin Concerto in E minor op.64

Felix Mendelssohn

Brett Yang, violin / Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barraez, conductor